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There Was a Crooked Man... is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz released in USA on 25 december 1970 with Kirk Douglas
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
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Add to a movie listThere Was a Crooked Man... is a 1970 western starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. This was the only western made by Mankiewicz, director of such notable films as All About Eve, Guys and Dolls and Cleopatra. It was written by David Newman and Robert Benton, their first script after Bonnie and Clyde.
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Paris Pitman has pulled off a $500,000 robbery and is the only one who knows where the money is hidden. He is seen in a bordello and is captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to an Arizona penitentiary.Actors
Kirk Douglas
(Paris Pitman, Jr.)
Henry Fonda
(Woodward W. Lopeman)
Burgess Meredith
(The Missouri Kid)
Arthur O'Connell
(Mr. Lomax)
Hume Cronyn
(Dudley Whinner)
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